Conflicts in Office 2003 after Vista Updates

I installed several Vista Updates (for the month of October) yesterday and
now I'm unable to open and use programs from Office 2003.
I receive an error message that "Microsoft Excel has not been installed for
the current user. Please run setup to install the application." I get similar
error message if I try to open Publisher or Access.

A warning message appears with opening Word that "the function you are
attempting to run contains macros or content that requires macro language
report..." I am able to remove this warning with repeatedly clicking OK. But
this is annoying.

No messages with PowerPoint, or Outlook. No apparent conflicts with these
programs.

[Forwarded to Office Update newsgroup via crosspost]

Daniel wrote:
> I installed several Vista Updates (for the month of October) yesterday and
> now I'm unable to open and use programs from Office 2003.
> I receive an error message that "Microsoft Excel has not been installed
> for
> the current user. Please run setup to install the application." I get
> similar error message if I try to open Publisher or Access.
>
> A warning message appears with opening Word that "the function you are
> attempting to run contains macros or content that requires macro language
> report..." I am able to remove this warning with repeatedly clicking OK.
> But
> this is annoying.
>
> No messages with PowerPoint, or Outlook. No apparent conflicts with these
> programs.

Have you tried Help\Detect and Repair in Excel and or Publisher. You will need your Office installation CD's to have the latter work

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Peter

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"PA Bear [MS MVP]" <> wrote in message news:%...
> [Forwarded to Office Update newsgroup via crosspost]
>
> Daniel wrote:
>> I installed several Vista Updates (for the month of October) yesterday and
>> now I'm unable to open and use programs from Office 2003.
>> I receive an error message that "Microsoft Excel has not been installed
>> for
>> the current user. Please run setup to install the application." I get
>> similar error message if I try to open Publisher or Access.
>>
>> A warning message appears with opening Word that "the function you are
>> attempting to run contains macros or content that requires macro language
>> report..." I am able to remove this warning with repeatedly clicking OK.
>> But
>> this is annoying.
>>
>> No messages with PowerPoint, or Outlook. No apparent conflicts with these
>> programs.
>

Using Help\Detect and Repair might be a good solution if I could access the
program. That's the problem.
It's pretty freaking ridiculous that I have to get out my installation CDs
to repair a problem that was created by a WINDOWS update download. (...pardon
my frustration)

"Peter Foldes" wrote:

> Have you tried Help\Detect and Repair in Excel and or Publisher. You will need your Office installation CD's to have the latter work
>
> --
> Peter
>
> Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
> Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be acknowledged.
>
> "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <> wrote in message news:%...
> > [Forwarded to Office Update newsgroup via crosspost]
> >
> > Daniel wrote:
> >> I installed several Vista Updates (for the month of October) yesterday and
> >> now I'm unable to open and use programs from Office 2003.
> >> I receive an error message that "Microsoft Excel has not been installed
> >> for
> >> the current user. Please run setup to install the application." I get
> >> similar error message if I try to open Publisher or Access.
> >>
> >> A warning message appears with opening Word that "the function you are
> >> attempting to run contains macros or content that requires macro language
> >> report..." I am able to remove this warning with repeatedly clicking OK.
> >> But
> >> this is annoying.
> >>
> >> No messages with PowerPoint, or Outlook. No apparent conflicts with these
> >> programs.
> >
>

Then try Control Panel->Add/Remove Programs->Microsoft
Office->Change->Repair.

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Milly Staples [MVP - Outlook]

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After furious head scratching, Daniel asked:

| Using Help\Detect and Repair might be a good solution if I could
| access the program. That's the problem.
| It's pretty freaking ridiculous that I have to get out my
| installation CDs to repair a problem that was created by a WINDOWS
| update download. (...pardon my frustration)
|
| "Peter Foldes" wrote:
|
|| Have you tried Help\Detect and Repair in Excel and or Publisher. You
|| will need your Office installation CD's to have the latter work
||
|| --
|| Peter
||
|| Please Reply to Newsgroup for the benefit of others
|| Requests for assistance by email can not and will not be
|| acknowledged.
||
|| "PA Bear [MS MVP]" <> wrote in message
|| news:%...
||| [Forwarded to Office Update newsgroup via crosspost]
|||
||| Daniel wrote:
|||| I installed several Vista Updates (for the month of October)
|||| yesterday and now I'm unable to open and use programs from Office
|||| 2003.
|||| I receive an error message that "Microsoft Excel has not been
|||| installed for
|||| the current user. Please run setup to install the application." I
|||| get similar error message if I try to open Publisher or Access.
||||
|||| A warning message appears with opening Word that "the function you
|||| are attempting to run contains macros or content that requires
|||| macro language report..." I am able to remove this warning with
|||| repeatedly clicking OK. But
|||| this is annoying.
||||
|||| No messages with PowerPoint, or Outlook. No apparent conflicts
|||| with these programs.